'Coventry' definitions:
Definition of 'Coventry'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry" [syn: banishment, ostracism, Coventry]
noun
An industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century
Definition of 'Coventry'
From: GCIDE
- Coventry \Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n. A town in the county of Warwick, England. [1913 Webster]
- To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.
- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery. [1913 Webster]